UN chief warns of new ‘era of global boiling’
(CNS): Scientists are already certain that July will be the hottest month on record and might be the hottest month for more than 120,000 years. “We don’t have to wait for the end of the month to know this. Short of a mini-ice age over the next days, July 2023 will shatter records across the board,” UN Secretary-general António Guterres said at a press briefing in New York on Thursday. “Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning… The era of global boiling has arrived.”
Noting that the weather was consistent with predictions and repeated warnings, he added, “The only surprise is the speed of the change.”
July’s heat wave has seen thousands of tourists flee wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes, more have suffered baking heat across the US Southwest, where in Pheonix, Arizona, residents have experienced an unbelievable 25-day stretch of temperatures over 110°F. In northwest China, temperatures reached 126°F, breaking the national record.
The UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) have both said the month will be the hottest July, with a mean global temperature of 0.4°F warmer than July 2019, the former hottest in the 174-year global database. Scientists said the month was roughly 1.5°C more than the average. But these records may be broken in August as forecasters are predicting another very hot month. July follows the hottest June on record and saw hottest-day records fall multiple times at the beginning month.
In addition to air surface temperatures, since May, global average sea surface temperatures have been well above previously observed values for the time of the year, contributing to the exceptionally hot July.
C3S Director Carlo Buontempo said these record-breaking temperatures are part of the trend of drastic increases in global temperatures. “Anthropogenic emissions are ultimately the main driver of these rising temperatures,” he stated in a press release “July’s record is unlikely to remain isolated this year, C3S’ seasonal forecasts indicate that over land areas temperatures are likely to be well above average, exceeding the 80th percentile of climatology for the time of year.”
WMO Secretary-General Prof. Petteri Taalas said the extreme weather is the harsh reality of climate change and a foretaste of what is to come. “The need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is more urgent than ever before. Climate action is not a luxury but a must,” he said.
Leipzig University climate scientist Karsten Haustein said in an analysis published Thursday that mankind “just lived through the warmest of any months over the last couple hundreds or thousands of years. We may have to go back all the way to the Eemian warm period (~120.000 years ago) to find similarly warm conditions. But since paleo temperature records… do not provide high enough temporal resolution, we cannot say with certainty that this July hasn’t been hotter during the peak of the current interglacial.”
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The earth has gone through many hot/cool/cold cycles and will never stop. One thing for certain in earths recorded history is that it will change sometime.
As always Those who can adapt will survive and live well. Those who can not will perish. This has been the case since the beginning of life on earth and will not change. Mankind has proven itself overall that it can adapt and will through change. What this means only time will tell. One thing for sure is that our way of life will change along with the world. My hope is that it will change slow enough for us to adapt easily but mankind does not like to change and will fight it always. Life will only get harder for those who already have a hard time living under the present conditions and those who work hard and smart to adapt will still live good lives. The same can be said for island nations, cities, countries, continents, etc. The ones who change and adapt will do well. Many will not. Cayman islands will not unless it changes as well from doing the easy corrupt things to the hard smart things. Personally I do not think Cayman Islands will have the ability as it already is financially in dept well beyond it’s ability to dig itself out anytime in the future. What do you think.
Strange… I think humans will die out in the first million years, but there is no information available to support that so there’s no way of knowing. Does it really matter? Do you know anything about humans being on earth when dinosaurs were around?
The way I see it – you tell someone the new building, new car, the solar panels etc are environmentally friendly, and you charge them 25% premium because it’s ‘green’. The dumb consumer walks off with a nice warm fuzzy feeling because they think they’ve done something good but really they’ve just been mugged by a salesmen and paid 25% extra to feel warm and fuzzy.
Don’t assume others also fail the homework of life, it might just be you.
Scientists are already certain that July will be the hottest month on record and might be the hottest month for more than 120,000 years. “We don’t have to wait for the end of the month to know this. Short of a mini-ice age over the next days, July 2023 will shatter records across the board,” UN Secretary-general António Guterres said at a press briefing in New York on Thursday. “Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning… The era of global boiling has arrived.”
Meanwhile in Cayman our Monopoly Electricity Service (and Renewable Energy provider; you cant use anything without their grid) will be doing what other than increasing bills what?
CUC is in bed with the Countries legislators passing lawws they author; its like a here’s a pst it; make sure unnah put this in before peole start setting uo solar…
The Legislators passing law that kills any competition and anyone person from living off the grid. On top of that the people passing the laws that benefit CUC are themselves shareholders in CUC (or related).
We are 2023 and I cannot set up renewable / alternative energy without CUC (by law).
The whole F**KING point of solar is that I don’t need CUC; literally.
Extortion is what CUC plays at and Govt endorsees it.
CUCs payment plans are pretty much set up to shut off your power; how can one be given a bly because they cant afford 500 dollar bill so they split it and add to the next 2 bills; making your payment higher than the one you asked some time to pay.
Then when its been hotter than Satan’s anuus across the globe; hotest ever; they tell you to switch your things off to save; which costs you more; and they pay for the front page of the Compass to announce how much profits they made whilst shutting off 30% populations power.
This place is going to erupt; it has too; the Piracy and Mafia` way of running this place and its citizens into the ground is pouring gasoline on it and someone needs to light the match.
This has happened across the globe and we sit here pretend everything ok.
Even UNESCO Agrees that Children are at Big risk!!
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/1-2-children-europe-and-central-asia-are-exposed-high-heatwave-frequency-double
This HEAT is real!
I see the private school students and teachers using hats every day.
yet the public schools seem to ignore the need for hats — of which I wore one my grandmother-made straw hat even as a child.
Lets get the kids hats for this September term!
The PE teachers all have hats and staff monitor and rest in the shade at lunchtimes though.
We will all die…….one day
Yup, and as the stewards of today, how will we leave this place for those that follow? Did we complete the homework consciously, and alter our wake to improve the outcomes that would be lived by others? Do we understand and care about the struggles we are serving up for our kids, grandkids, and whoever survives to come next? Published mitigations have so far not been adopted at scale, despite the scientific evidence and high confidence assessment reports. Many of us will die as failures, while others may be remembered for trying, even against the herds of indifference.
Strange… I think humans will die out in the first million years, but there is no information available to support that so there’s no way of knowing. Does it really matter? Do you know anything about humans being on earth when dinosaurs were around?
There were a conference or something in Europe on the global warming, so one participant arrived in a private jet, then 3 blocks from the location she got on a bicycle while her entourage was following her in 2-3 cars. You can’t make this up.
I’ll find the link.
CNS: Someone did make it up. No, Spain’s environment minister didn’t take a private jet to a climate conference
The new scare to justify the Carbon Tax…every decade or so we have a new “scare” remember, the oil is going to run out… the Ozone Layer is going to get bigger and burn us all…the ice is melting.. and it only costs us every time they succussed.
What 40,000 Musk’s satellites are doing to the ozone layer?
everyone who downvoted this comment deserves what is coming
Starlink did not respond to Space.com requests for comment.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
Yeah, we don’t see the Elephants in the room such as plastic pollution and environmental impacts of satellites.
Micropastics are in umbilical cords of newborn and mother’s milk and there are others, besides Musk who launch sattelites almost daily that destroy the one and only protective layer of our planet.
Yes, Elon Musk is the greatest con artist that has ever walked this earth!
You can add running out of food in the 60s.
Global cooling in the 70s. The ice 🧊 age is coming. 😂
Running out of food in the 80s.
Killer bees 🐝 in the 90s.
And who could forget Y2K. What a disaster. Remember all the computers shut down.
And don’t forget Monkey Pox just 6 months ago.
Fear = control = more taxes. Prove me wrong.
Are you dumb?
Confirmation bias fueled by right wing conspiracy theories will be the death of us all.
Hey, nice one! That guy above is a total JAASS, if you know what I mean! And speaking of hot stuff, El Nino brings that extra heat, but hey, it’s not all bad—it actually helps keep those hurricanes at bay. So, not all doom and gloom!
Now, here’s my two cents for those folks: they seriously need to quit with all the hot air and lies. Instead, let’s see some action—plant some trees, people! It’s the right thing to do, and it’ll make a real difference. Go green, go clean! 🌿
• food is mostly synthetic, don’t need to go into details about this
• bizarre wether patterns is a new reality
• 21st century “food” makes us sick and die sooner
You seem incapable of separating credible threats from people who capitalize on credible threats. Says more about your level of intellect than the actual threats that we have to navigate as a species.
You have the potential threats, you have people who use potential threats to profit, you have ostriches that pretend there is no threat at all and dummies that think there is no threat because informed people are just exaggerating for personal gain.
None of the above is encouraging. The stupidest argument is that we shouldn’t attempt to mitigate issues in the future because we have had SUCCESS mitigating issues in the past.
Just because we dodged bullets doesn’t mean there weren’t bullets dummy.
It’s like being on a boat with a bunch of ignorant psychologically stunted saboteurs. If the CNS comment section is a microcosm of the world… We are so fkd 😢
“Credible threat” Who decides? Are we dodging bullets or just dancing around? The expert prediction track record is weak.
CNS: Actually, the models of climate change prediction have been remarkably accurate.
Science: Even 50-year-old climate models correctly predicted global warming
Who do you think should decide?obviously, random ignorant anonymous commenters that study crackpot conspiracy theories on yt.
I mean why would we trust experts, you know, ppl who are actually dedicating their time and effort to studying the problems utilizing the scientific method and peer review?
Ffs man.
You don’t know how to think. Turn off YouTube and Joe Rogan.
free solution:
stop meat production or add 500% sales tax increase to all meat products.
free solution…stop eating all vegetables or add a 500% tax to them.
It’s all a lie:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/heat-wave-index-usa
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1293872/us-heat-wave-index/
Great job with REAL facts….The should save all the working World Trillions…
How do you explain all of the photos of glaciers? 40 years ago, 100 years ago, miles and miles of very thick ice. Today, no ice in sight. Where did it go? Is it really nothing to worry about?
Seasonal photos manipulated and compiled into a false dichotomy, which — as with statistics — are used to support a pervasive narrative of doom.
finally someone with a brain.
WHERE?
WHERE! WHERE !
It’s simple, stop expecting the government to do anything; nothing will happen, and Caymanians (born or imported) will do nothing. In the end, remember that you did nothing while you watch the chaos consume everything you know. Don’t wine or complain just sit back and shut up.
Some guys pee all over the toilet seat and floor. Others know how to leave a place for those that follow. Same with life, relationships, and stewardship duties to the environment.
7:13, The real scary point for us here, is the fact that the higher the Atlantic Ocean temperatures the more powerful the hurricanes that hit the Caribbean.
Better hope that we dodge the hurricane bullets coming to our neighborhood soon.
That remains to be seen
I would suggest the 5 years has been very quiet overall from a land falling hurricane standpoint in the MDR
11:11, Well we just dodged one last October which went on to hit the west coast of Florida as the biggest hurricane ever on the west coast.
My home insurance agent told me the big one is coming. He said it is “all in the laws of probabilities”.
As a mortgage and insurance customer, I support this ruse.
Agreed.
Those in government need to open their eyes and stop allowing the destruction of the environment by getting rid of green spaces/wetlands, and the building of those tall buildings. More heat will be generated from concrete jungle.
Lord help us.
Quick, everyone’s not scared enough – let’s rebrand global warming to global boiling!
Funny enough there are camps that is been hosted outside in the pelting sun. I wads so sad to see how my son skin was terrible burnt although he was wearing sun screen.
Interesting, the burn is from neglect, not from a increase in the average UV reading.
Or are you saying the Suns intensity could be causing climate change? If you are saying that well you are going against the current climate change narrative.
@4:16. My point exactly. Neglect by the camp leaders. He was exposed to the sun for the entire week.
It’s not like we live on a flat island at sea level…. Oh wait!
This is what happens when we don’t hold Government’s accountable for reducing emissions and carbon foot print.
Do you really believe that our postage stamp surface area can make any global difference..?
Go complain to China, India, Indonesia, Europe, and let Cayman do what it has to to survive.
Caymankind mentality….zzzzzzz
expat stupidity
G7 and other first world consumers like Cayman, despite their proportionately tinier size and populations lead global green house gas emissions.
Not about to change anytime soon either.
Governments are on the supply side, consumers are on the demand side. The consumption driving GHGE are demand-driven consumer choices.
Have we ever held the Cayman government accountable for anything???
UN always full of hot air so they contributing to global warming during ENSO too.
A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream is a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.
What happens if the Gulf Stream goes away?
Climate models indicate that an abrupt stop could trigger extreme cooling across parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Rainfall patterns around the world would be disrupted and major floods and storms would increase, leading to further sea level rise in the North Atlantic basin among other effects.
It stands to reason that oceanic thermo conveyors are changing in every ocean, and the air currents across all continents. Major fisheries are collapsing earlier than warned, with est. under a couple decades left to critical extinction level threat. Most of the store bought tuna and salmon already comes from unsustainable ocean farming. Climate change is a planetary concern, not isolated to the Atlantic, or even the G7. Fresh water crisis already underway on major watersheds worldwide.
Anon 430 its interesting that you only mention the cooling. Those currents are temperature transports hot water north towards the poles and cold water towards the equator. Stop the current and yes cooling would occur to the north but warming would have to occur to the south.
In before the developer bots and closed minded fools deny we are in emergency mode now
All the coral is starting to die off around Grand Cayman. The water temperatures are just too high around our islands.
Very sad for the diving industry here.
Coral bleaching in the Gulf of Mexico spreading through the Atlantic basin and its unstoppable.
Downward spiral.
The Atlantic Ocean has the highest temperatures ever recorded with no signs of cooling.
The planet is in dire citcumstances and the leaders of the world have no courage to force change, because the donor cabal won’t allow it.
We havent had a major bleaching event here in Cayman for about 4 years. These events occur naturally and are linked to events like El Nino’s which we are having this year. They don’t happen every year. Also, the recent SCTLD (stony coral tissue loss disease) outbreak is the main reason for the coral die-off. this isn’t climate-related but linked to a virus that affects the coral’s symbiotic Zooxanthellae. Little we can do about it.
1:44, You been diving around Grand Cayman the past month? We have bleaching as I saw it last week. Not major yet but by end of September it could be real bad.
I’ve been diving all summer. I have noticed the bleaching. But read my comment again. We haven’t had a major bleaching event for about 4 years. There has been the odd stressed coral during the hotter months in previous years. but nothing too intense. These events come in cycles and this year happens to be one of those years. Also, many coral species are fully capable of recovering from bleaching.